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 17 was an able bodied man in the face, I thought to be I made a brigadeer, a grandedeer, or a fuzeleer, or even one of them blue gowns that holds the fiery flick to the bung hole of the big cannons, when they let them off, to fright away the French ; I was as fare as no man alive ere I came from Cork, the leaſt preferment I could get, was to be riding maſter to a regiment of marines, or one of the black horſe itſelf. Tom Well Pady, you ſeem to be a very clever lir- le man, to be all in one body, what height are you? Teag. Arra, dear ſroy, I am five feet nothing, all but one inch. Tom. And where in England was it you lifted ? Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I was going through that little country village, the famous city of Cheſter, the ſtreets waſ very fore by reaſon of the hardneſs of my feet, and lameneſs of my brogues, ſo I went but very flowly acroſs the ſtreets, from port to port is a pretty long way, but I being weary thought nothing bf it, then the people came all crowding to me as I had peen a world's wonder, or the wandering Jew: For the ain blew in my face, and the wind wetted all my belly, (which cauſed me to turn the back fide of my coat be- core, and my buttons behind, which was a good ſafe gruard to my body, and the ſtarvation of my naked Spack, as I had not a good ſhirt. Tom. I am ſure then, Pady, they would take you pra fool ? Teag. No, no, ſir, they admired me for my wiſdom, or I always turned my buttons before, when the wind lew on behind, but I wonder'd how the people knew uy name and where I came from ; for every one told other, that was Pady from Cork: I ſuppoſe they new my face, by ſeeing my name in the Newſpapers. Tom. Well, Pady, what buſineſs did you follow in heſter? - Teag. To be ſure I was not idle, working at no- hing at all, till a decruiting ſergeant came to town with two or three fellows along with him, one beat-